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Pendant: Head of a Female Divinity or Sphinx
Unknown550–525 B.C.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
This pendant is carved to represent the frontal face of a female with narrow eyes and large nose and lips.
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Details
- Title: Pendant: Head of a Female Divinity or Sphinx
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 550–525 B.C.
- Location Created: Tarentum (?), Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 34.5 × 24 × 16 mm (1 3/8 × 15/16 × 5/8 in.)
- Type: Female figure
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Amber
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 76.AO.79
- Culture: Etruscan
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, Gift of Gordon McLendon
- Creator Display Name: Unknown
- Classification: Jewelry
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